The water mite family Mideopsidae (Acari: Hydrachnidia): a contribution to the diversity in the Afrotropical region and taxonomic changes above species level
Author
Pešić, Vladimir
Author
Cook, David
Author
Gerecke, Reinhard
Author
Smit, Harry
text
Zootaxa
2013
3720
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1
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3720.1.1
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1175-5326
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Djeboa bakeri
(Cook, 1966)
(
Fig. 7A–E
)
Mideopsis
(
Djeboa
)
bakeri
Cook 1966: 238
.
Material examined
:
Type
series: FMC;
holotype
female,
Liberia
, six miles north of Kpain, backwater area of a stream,
7.xi.1957
(Coll. 79), Cook. No further specimens known.
General features
: Dorsal shield oval (L/W ratio 1.1–1.2), with medial depression; muscle scars anterior and posterior to the postocularia, with weakly pronounced thickenings (
Fig. 7A
); colour pattern unknown; gnathosomal bay Y-shaped; tips of Cx-I ending posterior to frontal margin; medial margin of Cx-IV comparatively well developed; Cx-IV with a few, short longitudinal striae. Palp (
Fig. 7C
): P-1 with a dorsal seta; P-2 with concave ventral and convex dorsal margin; P-3 slender, ventral margin with a basal kink, distally straight; P-4 very slender, ventral margin concave. Legs: I-L (
Fig. 7D
) with I-L-6 L/H ratio 3.0; IV-L:
Fig. 7E
.
Discussion
: Differences brought out in the key will distinguish this species from all others. Male unknown.
Distribution
:
Liberia
.